After getting called out by Ronald Reagan biographer, AOC offers up lame excuse for her ignorance; UPDATED

As Twitchy told you yesterday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made quite the ass of herself railing against Ronald Reagan at SXSW. Once again, in attempting to sound like an expert, she revealed that she doesn’t have the faintest idea what she’s talking about.

It's easy to try and rewrite history when you never learned it in the first place. Great thread. https://t.co/sFui4ftKXO

There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know Reagan appointed more African Americans to government positions as governor of California than any other executive of the state. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg

There is no evidence of @AOC ever picked up a book on President Reagan. so she would not know he was the president who signed the order creating the Dr. Martin Luther King national holiday. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg

There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know the @washingtonpost and the @NYT wrote lengthy articles exposing the massive corruption of the Welfare Queen of Chicago, Linda Taylor, to whom Reagan was referring.

There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan. so she would not know that Reagan’s economic policies did more for African Americans and Hispanics than any other president in US history. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg

There is no evidence that @AOC ever picked up a book on President Ronald Reagan, so she would not know he created over 18 million jobs during his eight years in office and kicked off a 26 year run of economic growth. pic.twitter.com/n6Z1Js4gxg

The problem with AOC isn’t that she’s read “different” books; it’s that she’s a vocal proponent of socialism, which is antithetical to the cause of liberty championed by Ronald Reagan. Reagan wasn’t perfect — no one is — but to suggest that he turned America into a hellhole and was responsible for things like the AIDS crisis or our current political climate is incredibly dishonest. But then, we’d expect nothing else from her. It’s easy for her to slime Reagan because she knows her acolytes will lap it up without a second thought.